Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/6th Month Report

The residency is now done on a part time basis (20 hours per week).

Projects delivered within the past month

• 50 images released from the collection of the Science Museum (currently viewed around 20,000 times per day on Wikipedia over 10 languages)

Selection os images from the Science Museum collection added to Wikimedia Commons with their page views per day

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  Page views of images from the Science Museum collection added to Wikimedia Commons
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  4000 - Glass flask used by Marie Curie, late 19th-early 20th century
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  3765 - Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod, 1935
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  2575 - Artificial limbs for a thalidomide child, 1961-1965
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  2370 - Baby Blue - a prototype polymerase chain reaction (PCR), c 1986
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  1560 - Stephen Hawking's Computer and speech synthesiser housing
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  1310 - Artificial nose, 17th-18th century
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  1140 - Iron artificial arm, 1560-1600
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  1042 - Sir Ernest Rutherfords laboratory, early 20th century
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  770 - Glass flask used by Louis Pasteur, 1860s
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  620 - Napoleon’s toothbrush, c 1795

• A small number of ct scan 3d models to be released under an open license (more information soon)
• Presentation at FOSS4G (20 people)
• Presentation to Science Museum senior curation team (all senior curators, 15 people) on the value of open licensing (link to presentation)
• Presentation and planning with Science Museum education department (link to presentation)
• Presentation and planning with senior public engagement staff member at the Natural History Museum
• Submitted report on open licensing to the digital team at the Science Museum
• Created simple guide to open licensing for educational organisations

A brief outline of how the projects delivered link with the general objectives of the residency, and the Wikimedia UK’s mission

• Understanding of Wikimedia
• The contributions that institutions can make to open licensing and mechanics of doing so

Projects in development

• More work on multilingual virtual museum
• Wikipedia training for the Office of National Statistics in Newport
• Presentation to the Office of National Statistics in London
• Trowel Blazers: Women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology

Planned projects

• Photograph the Museum event (date TBA)
• Edit the Museum event, contributing the the virtual museum (date TBA)